Yamaha Motor Corporation (ヤマハ発動機株式会社) is a motorized vehicle-producing company, initially part of the Yamaha Corporation. After expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, former Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles in 1955. Yamaha Motors is the world's second largest producer of motorcycles. It also produces many other motorized vehicles such as ATVs, boats, snowmobiles, and personal watercrafts.
In 2000 Toyota bought 5% of Yamaha Motor from the Yamaha Corporation, the largest shareholder in Yamaha Motor, for about $97.6 million. Yamaha and Yamaha Motor each bought 500,000 shares of Toyota stock in return.
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Motorcycle models
Snowmobiles
Other Vehicles
Yamaha has also built V-8 engines for other manufacturer's vehicles, most notably the Ford Taurus SHO and the Volvo XC90. A future Lincoln automobile will use the same Yamaha V-8 engine as the XC90.
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